BEST ENTRY WILDLIFE LENS

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I want to start to do some wildlife photography and need to buy a telephoto lens. Can any body recommend an entry level lens?

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70-300 range is very good(becomes 450mm on your D80), that'd easily tide you over til you could get somthing better. Personally I'd go for the Tamron DI etc one, its about £130 from camerbox. I've had no end of trouble from a couple of sigma lenses in the past, also tamron seem sharper to me.
 
you'll still need to be pretty close even at 450mm if you're shooting small wildlife such as birds, it'll be Ok for large animals such as deer etc.

I'd be looking for something longer secondhand if it was just for wildlife.

something like this Tokina 80-400mm perhaps, this one has sold and was canon in any case but it gives you an idea of the price,

there are a couple of versions of this lens, i've had the newer one which this one is and found it to be pretty good

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tokina-Camera...es_CameraLensesFilters_JN?hash=item2ea93e22f3
 
Have you thought about looking at the nikon manual lenses, seeing if you could get a 300mm prime, not knowing too much about nikon, but there is a 300mm f4.5 manual lens going at Mifsuds or a 300mm f4 auto lens at ffordes for around £400, so have a look at Mifsuds or Ffordes, as well as MBP who advertise on TP, your budget even second hand is limited, although around the price of a used 70-300mm f4-5.6
 
Don't get the manual as your main lens! It is too impractical, and unless you are getting a Nikon D100/D1 upwards you will have to use it in manual mode as well as manual focus. I have to do this with my 600mm but because its not the every day lens and the reslts are g8, I can live with it, rather than spending £5 k :D Well, the 70-300 is my everyday lens(at the mo its 55-200 til I sell it!), purely because go any higher, the prices get higher and unless you pay a premium results are soft. Over 80% of my shots were on the 70-300, sometimes a bit of cropping, but gnerally fine. Think about it, before digital what lens would you have used? Perhaps the sigma 135-400? Tamron 200-500? All a bit soft...and the 70-300 becomes pretty much that on the digital APS C!
 
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